The three worst words in boating are...

[lady_stormrider]

Where's the mooring?



We arrived at Windermere this morning after being told that all was well - yes 15 boats had been blown off their moorings but all the owners had been informed on 19th December. There were still two boats on the foreshore but no - neither were a Copland Harrier.

Carousel was not on her mooring.

[claymore]

Feckfeckfeck

[lady_stormrider]

Feckfeckfeck

No - that's actually one word - as used in 'Mrs Brown's Boys'

Carousel was on another mooring, a holiday mooring nearby, having broken her shackle bolt on her block, had a brief taste of freedom and ended up somewhere that scraped her gelcoat. All her tackle and moring bouy were on her foredeck, rusting nicely into the cockpit.

[Nick]

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Glad to hear it's only a scrape or two.

[ash]

Yes, glad to hear that the Wardens got her off the shore before she suffered too much damage. Hope that she didn't damage any other boat during her escapade.

Ash

[lady_stormrider]

Fair point - some acquaintance of ours had to stay on their mooring at Ferry Nab on Christmas Day and watch helplessly as a motorboat on a mooring was swamped and sank.

15 boats were sunk/lost/blown onto the foreshore on that particular storm.

We are far enough apart not to be a hazard (and we know of at least one other mooring that's been lost at Waterhead in 2013).

But as they say - it could be worse. There are flowers gathered by a bench in Borran's Park to commemeorate someone who drowned in the River Rathay that day.

At least we were recovered and are on a serviced holiday mooring.